For the second time, a regional court in Brazil has ordered telecom companies in the Brazil to block access to the country’s most popular messaging service, the Facebook-owned WhatsApp for 72 hours. The ongoing dispute has been raging on for months as Brazilian authorities felt frustrated for not being able to gain access to WhatsApp’s encrypted data they need to pursue criminal investigations.
The House of Representatives failed to pass a bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security, setting off a race against time to try and fund the agency before it must shut down at midnight.
Once popular file sharing service RapidShare is shutting down on March 31, 2015, the company announced.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
